Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cd09a1e8de905b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 20:58:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2a41c8854302195dff81157cd9b2b580 SHA-1: 7b2eddccd2e39b177c7881992ea1e1eeeae4d679 SHA-256: 2cd09a1e8de905b6221cae4ec50a57bf5dd088e6775b1f8cb773c1eb3e464b61
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is associated with a keyword search for 'pc play store app and install', suggesting a lure. The document also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, with 'static.usrfiles.com' being a dominant host. A high-severity heuristic for visible LOLBin command execution instructions was also observed, though no specific commands were extracted. The presence of these elements strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Visible LOLBin command execution instruction high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Document contains instructions or visible command text involving Windows script/execution tools such as PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, or regsvr32
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=pc+play+store+app++and+install
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c26904b176ba4d1dbcdc386cbf40fb12.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a04519cd42ae4f959c5db42a25157745.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c71c59435294bb49a24a87059cfecf8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/24853a_ef45a76134344e7ba1031bb6d6476911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5202/2430/files/homegrown_zac_brown_band_album.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9423/files/english_speaking_improvement_tips.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3617/1688/files/finalisation_of_accounts_in_tally_erp_9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4303/6053/files/44946882991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xezunegudowafosixezuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0629/5201/files/gerebexosoziverizajagola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/1976/3618/files/reception_baseline_assessment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6797/2515/files/lobajub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5679/0695/files/fuseketapuleri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2920/8988/files/complex_conjugate_of_e_ix.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069f3.bin
4f850a0083d0f41313a576d89bb6aa40fdb9643e24f58105449f95fa40b3e8a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F3 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b9d.bin
fe0526d66788a40c18a37792a54b52522984912ef9a4bfb54979222c33ecaa00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B9D 10316 bytes